Combiths English 1106 20 April 2015 Should Student-Athletes be Paid? Introduction In the modern college sports era‚ the call for student-athletes to be paid has escalated. These athletes are now apart of a nearly billion-dollar industry in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). There are arguments for both sides. Those who believe that the athletes should be paid make the argument that schools and the NCAA are making millions of dollars off these athletes and are not being compensated for
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Being a student athlete should be a privilege‚ a reward; it should always come second‚ after the students’ education. It seems that student athletes get special treatments‚ getting away with having low grades‚ having an extended time to do assignments‚ or even being excused from them. There needs to be a more strict policy in order to be on a high school sports team and to play in games. After all‚ high schools do not require students to participate in team or individual sports. Most high school
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Amateur Sports College athletes are held to a high standard‚ to act‚ perform and live like professionals. Why not pay them like professionals to? Sure you don’t have to pay them as much as professional athletes but there are a lot of reasons why student athletes should get paid rather than just the scholarship itself. When fans watch these student athletes play there is a major profit in money that the NCAA gets from the millions of people watching. Also‚ the students are the one playing the sport;
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yearly.” All this money goes to support championships and programs that benefit student athletes and for building operations. The NCAA is supposed to be a non-profit organization but they sell jerseys with the star athletes names on them. The “student-athletes” get none of the money that is made by selling their name on the jerseys. Even though they get a free education with their scholarship‚ college athletes should be getting some compensation for their hard work and abilities because they are
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Should College Athletes get paid? College Athletes are students not professionals We go to college in hopes of a job to make money Students must learn to contribute to society Athletes make choice to commit time to their sport Why should athletes get paid to go to school? Athletes get paid in scholarships Students with full ride are debt free of college loans “The money they would be using would be coming out of the university’s general funds‚ which would mean taking money away from
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College Athletes College athletes generate billions of dollars for colleges every year. Despite this fact‚ they do not receive any money. They only receive very little money from colleges via scholarships‚ or just enough to make a living in college. However‚ people argue that scholarships is not all the “money” athletes should receive during their college career. Considering the fact that athletes bring in billions of dollars a year for colleges‚ many people are starting to ask questions and form
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education and being an athlete‚ school feels like a breeze as you walk around campus as one of the big dogs in town. People may think that it is difficult to play a college sport and get career studies‚ but it isn’t impossible through new college programs for athletes to come. There have been recent studies to try to help improve college athletics throughout universities. “Offering an associates bachelor’s degree would place more emphasis on academics‚ and give the student-athlete more in return for
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his tuition. If Marquiss got paid for his work he does on the basketball court and football field. Marquiss and other sports players in college should only have to focus on playing the sports they play. College athletes like Marquiss should get paid because they are very important to a school‚ pay would help with tuition and athletes can get overwhelmed. The first reason that college athletes are very important to a school. People who play sports in college don’t get paid for
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collegiate level is a choice of the student; it isn’t mandatory. Student athletes have the ability to go to college because they excell at a sport/sports‚ That is one of the greatest opportunities but some feel that‚this opportunity isn’t good enough. The greedy people want more than the ability to play a sport and go to college for free.Those greedy people are the college athletes who want to get paid. College athletes shouldn’t get paid to play sports because they get paid with free college education and
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Should college athletes get paid more money? There has been a constant debate the past few years on whether college athletes‚ particularly football players‚ should get paid. In 1988‚ the Nebraska legislature passed a bill that would allow the University of Nebraska football players to receive better cash incentives. The bill was later vetoed by Governor Kay Orr‚ who was governor of Nebraska at the time (O’Toole etal. 2). . The dispute comes from coaches‚ parents of the players‚ and the players
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